Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-25
PRODUCE.
Wheeling.

Wheeling.
We report a fair market on butter and
poultry, while the receipts of eggs are
heavy and prices are on a decline. Apples
are also weak on account Of the warm
weather.
Green stuff is selling up pretty
close tothe supply and prices have changed
but in a few instances since our
last report. Good stock is sold up pretty
close TO the supply, but ordinary
stua hangs on and is slow selling.
The prices quoted below are wholesale fg-
ures and al green stuff Is home raised. The
quotations are changed on Tuesdays and
FRIDAYS. but the market is liable 10 tluc-
t~uatiOns between those days.
Butter-Demand brisk; choice creamery
2Oa22c; country choice 22a2jc; good cOun-
Try lIalSc; common 5a6c; supply fair.
Beans-New handpicked navy 81 25al 40
per bushel; old II lOAl 10; demand for
old slow, for new good.
Dried Fruit-New evapOrated pared
peaches 3Oa3jc; impaired do l5al!c; rasp-
berries 9Ou22c; blavkberries 9AlOc;new sun
driei apples, quartcged, &c, sliced 4ajc;
peaches, new halves, 43a5!c; do quarters 4
a5c;do pared l5alSc ;pitted cherries l2al3ci
new evapOrated apples l0al2c. Market on
dried fruit nominal; demand moderate.
Cheese-SaleS in jObbing way of prime
mild Ohio factory at SIC; New York l4a
l5c; Sweitzer llal2c; Limberger 9alOc.
Feathers-ChOice, 50a55c, III original
packages; lace more in small lots.
Honey-ChOice white clover, 13al4c;
choice buckwheat, l2al4C.
PotatOeS-Choice new home raised, ID to
SOC per buShel; demand light; supply good.
Poultry-Live chickens, old 81 5Oa2 -
per dozen; dressed chickens ; TO Sc per
pound; turkeys, live 7aSc, dressed 9allc
per pound; demand good, supply fair
ducks, live 81 O0a3 90 per doz. dressed,
lUal2c; dressed geese, Case per pound.
.~Racs-Steady ut Halle for white mixed
cotton; la14c for all wool and Halle for
mixed.
Seeds-Clover, per bushel, s. OOa5 80;
timothy, per bushel, 81 l5a2 30. Market
active.
LArd-Country prime, 5la6c; demand
fair.
Apples-Green, per Dbl. choice new,
81 75a2 %; common 81 % per barrel;
demand good; supply light.
Buckwheat Flour-Per pound 2ia2!c.
Onions-New, 15ca$l 10 per bushei; good
demand; supply light.
Cabhage-Pcr hundred $3a5; demand
good, supply light.
Sweet potatoes-$2 80 to- 10 per barrel;
Jerseys, s. 10 to 3 90; supply light; de-
mand good.
Cranberries-S2 IS to s. 90 per bushel
crate; good demand, supply good.
Nuts hellbark hickory nuts per bushel
lal %; vain uts 25a35c.
Parsnips-Sl 25al 80 per barrel.
Turnips-Sl per barrel.
New York.
NEW YORK. February 24.-Flour-
Receipts 10, ASP barrels and sacks; exports
9.s4S barrels, and l., SOS sacks; market
heavy with less doing; sales L., 500 barrels;
common to good extra western and State
81 2Oa3 60; good to choice do g 65a5 -.
Wheat-Receipts 69, $50 bushels; exports
>, 30 bushels; cash fa?c lower and heavy;
options opened haze lower, later reacted
laIc, subsequently declined lalsc, closing
heavy; sales 1854, 900 bushels futures and
$4,000 bushels spot: No. , spring nomi,
nal nj ole: No. | hard Ole: ungraded red
Sla92SC; No. 3 red S5}c: No. | red g2lC'
No. ! white 93lc; No. > red February nom
inal; March Ss!as9Ic, closing at SSlc
Aril S9ta90!c, closing at >9!c; May 90l
g1.c, closing at 9Oc; June 9Osa9l3C, clos,
ing at 9O.c; July 99$a9l3c closing a,
9O4c; August 9la92Sc, closing AT 90sc; Sep,
TENDER 92a93tc. closing at g2c; October
93!a9isc, closing at 93tC; December 9j{a
914c, closing at 95iC. Corn-SpoS C and
options ia4c lower, closing weak; receipt:
46, 200 bushels; exports 6j, 100 bushels
sales 800, coo bushels futures: ungraded
I7laiS2c; No. , 46lc; February nominal
March i~T4alS,c, closing ut i73C; Apr,
4~7;ais!c, closing at Ale; May 4SaiSsc,
closing at 4Sc; June i~salSs, closing 4,
4S,c. Oats-MOderately active; receipts
1855 bushels; exports 1920 bushels; west
ern 36a37c; white do 37ai2c. Hay-Quiet
Hops-Quiet and steady. Coffee-Fair
Rio dull at l4!c; options lower and mod
eralely active; sales 6S, 900 hays; February
II 5na12.65c; March, April, May, June,
July, l.. 45al2.55c; August and Septem'
Der l.. Scale. 60c: October l.. Soc. Sugar
Dull, easy and quiet. MOlaSses-Dull
and nominal. Rice-Steady. Petroleum
Firm: United opened at 81 c. Tallow-
At 4!c. ~RoSinASteady at Sl.O0al 10
Turpentine-Dull. Esg-Firm and il
fair demand; receipts 4,lS7 packages
western lSalstc. POrk-Steady and mod
erately active at Sl4 2ia14 80 old; SIS .;
new. Iard-Lower and moderately active
western steam spot s. 20; April s. 22s
Z 26; May s. 20a7 90; June s. 32a7 SO
Butter-Frm and moderately active
CheeSe-Quiet and firm.
Chicago.
CHICAGO, February 2L.-The wheat
market was depressed again to-day and the
later trading figures were the lowest of the
day, the lowest which have yet been
reached on the present crop options. The
speculative offerings were large throughout
out the entire day. The principal feature
of the market was the premiums on the
deliveries beyond May, and the reason
given for this is that May shorts have
covered freely and had again put out large
lines for the longer deliveries. Wheat fol
September deliveries sold at s2as33c and
closed at S2e, or lie under yesterday
closing figures. Corn was quiet Oats,